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Where to Watch ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ Season 11 Stream Free

Where to Watch ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ Season 11 Stream Free

Published by Daniella Wilson

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Three weeks after Drag Race‘s season 18 finale, the franchise returns with a new installment of its All Stars spinoff. The two-episode premiere of RuPaul‘s Drag Race All Stars season 11 hits Paramount+ on May 8, with new episodes dropping each Friday. While Paramount+ plans start at $8.99 per month, there’s a workaround to get it free via DirecTV. Sign up for one of DirecTV’s signature packages (which offer a five-day trial) and get your first three months of Paramount+ included at no extra cost. At a Glance: How to Stream RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 11 Premiere: Friday, May 8, 12 a.m. PT/3 a.m. ET New episodes: Weekly on Fridays, 12 a.m. PT/3 a.m. ET Stream online: Paramount+ (or Paramount+ via DirecTV — more on this below) When and Where to Watch RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 11 The two-part premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars season 11 …

RuPaul’s Drag Race Names Season 18 Winner, Miss Congeniality

RuPaul’s Drag Race Names Season 18 Winner, Miss Congeniality

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains major spoilers from the finale of RuPaul‘s Drag Race season 18.] RuPaul has crowned America’s Next Drag Superstar! Season 18 of RuPaul’s Drag Race has come to an end, and Myki Meeks has snatched the crown. Heading into Friday night’s finale, Darlene Mitchell, Myki Meeks and Nini Coco were named the top three of the competition. Each drag artist dished out a performance to their own original song in the cumulative episode, though it was Myki and Nini who RuPaul named the top two queens of season 18. Darlene was named second runner-up, and before she exited the stage to make way for the lip sync, she jokingly turned back to RuPaul and asked, “You sure?” But before RuPaul’s Drag Race named its mint winner, Jane Don’t was presented with the coveted title of Miss Congeniality, voted on by the cast. While she did not win season 18, Jane Don’t was a frontrunner throughout the season, with her elimination in episode 13 coming as a surprise. (She unpacked her Drag Race tenure with THR …

Katya Interview: RuPaul’s Drag Race, Trixie Mattel And Podcast Who’s The A**hole

Katya Interview: RuPaul’s Drag Race, Trixie Mattel And Podcast Who’s The A**hole

Published by Sam Flores

“You’ll have to excuse me, I’m cleaning a men’s wig.” This feels as fitting a way as any to begin a conversation with Katya Zamolodchikova (your dad just calls her Katya), the drag world’s queen of all things chaotic. Katya first captured the world’s attention 10 years ago, as one of the break-out stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race’s seventh season, quickly becoming a popular fan-favourite and returning a year later for the second All Stars season (still considered by many to be the pinnacle of the franchise) a year after being crowned her season’s Miss Congeniality. A decade on, she’s still considered one of the show’s most popular queens, particularly among non-winners – a title she’s more than happy to retain. “I’m not a winner – and I mean that not in a pejorative, insult-y way,” she tells HuffPost UK. “I’m not competitive. I found that out the first day I was on the show.” Katya recalls: “I guess before I went to season seven, I was kind of like, ‘I could win’. And then …

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Winners on Show Changes After 18 Seasons

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Winners on Show Changes After 18 Seasons

Published by Daniella Wilson

RuPaul’s Drag Race has kicked off its eighteenth installment, crawling closer and closer to a milestone 20th season.  Premiering almost 17 years ago, the series has gone through plenty of changes as the franchise worked out its now polished structure: a batch of drag artists compete in weekly challenges; one queen earns a win for their performance; two queens land in the “bottom” of the competition and perform against one another in a lip sync for their life; and the winner of said lip sync stays in the running for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar.  It’s a tried and true format that has remained steadfast over all 18 seasons, its three varying network homes and a plethora of international spinoffs. But in the early days of RuPaul’s Drag Race, before they snatched up 29 Emmy Awards, there was no preexisting framework for queens to reference going into the competition. They simply went into things blind, as all first-season reality TV contestants do.  “When we started, we had no blueprint,” season one winner BeBe …